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Mars Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Mars Daily Editorial Team produces Mars Daily's coverage of Mars exploration and science. We report on rovers and orbiters, sample-return and human-Mars planning, and the geology, atmosphere and astrobiology of the Red Planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Mars Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Baumgartner: Mars travel a waste of money

Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2012 - Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner says he believes NASA's Mars mission is a waste of money that could be used for saving our planet.

Oct 27, 2012

Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover’s Observation Tray

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. The observations will help asses

Oct 26, 2012

Opportunity Undertakes Survey Drives Of Local Area

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2012 - Opportunity is continuing a local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Th

Oct 26, 2012

Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of dusty sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. The rove

Oct 23, 2012

Valles Marineris – the largest canyon in the Solar System

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2012 - Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions - at over 21 kilometres in height,

Oct 23, 2012

How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2012 - With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind the Seven Minutes of Terror, just imagi

Oct 19, 2012

Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mine

Oct 19, 2012

Opportunity Is On The Move Around ‘Matijevic Hill’

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2012 - Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Oct 19, 2012

Rover eyes ‘man-made’ objects in Martian dirt

Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 18, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday.

Oct 18, 2012

NMSU Graduate Student Looks For Indications Of Life On Mars In Possible Trace Methane Gas

Reno NV (SPX) Oct 17, 2012 - An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a presentation during the American Astronomica

Oct 17, 2012

Rover’s Second Scoop Discarded, Third Scoop Commanded

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2012 - Commands will be sent to Curiosity instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the Rocknest site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Pending evaluation of this Sol 69 (Oct. 1

Oct 16, 2012

Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2012 - On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Like the firs

Oct 15, 2012

Robotic Arm Tools Get To Work On Rock Outcrop

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2012 - Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour C

Oct 15, 2012

Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 12, 2012 - The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth'

Oct 12, 2012

Meteorite delivers Martian secrets to University of Alberta researcher

Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Oct 12, 2012 - A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated. University of Alberta researcher Chris Herd helped in the study

Oct 12, 2012

Resume Working with First Scooped Sample

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 11, 2012 - The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material. Plans for Sol 64 (Oct. 10) call for shifting the scoopful of sand and d

Oct 11, 2012